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In this careful exposition of the concept of the ego ideal, the author explores the short cuts that are available to the psyche and traces the longer, more painful path to maturity. She develops in her own way Freud's view that people are forever seeking to regain a lost state of perfection, the state in which they were their own ideal - "primary narcissism". The book includes chapters on the following aspects of the ego ideal perversion, genitality, being-in-love, groups, sublimation in the creative process, reality testing, and the superego.

Read The Ego Ideal A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal Janine ChasseguetSmirgel Paul Barrows Christopher Lasch Books

"I only recently came upon Chasseguet-Smirgel's 1985 book on the ego ideal while researching a paper on the subject. It is an important contribution to the subject. I found a parallel that is significant to me between her characterization of the ego ideal and Plato's concept of Eros in The Symposium. Both represent human striving for completion that is never met during a lifetime. The value is in the striving, not the quest for completion. This book is worth reading."

Product details Paperback 271 pages Publisher Free Association Books (December 1, 1985) Language English ISBN-10 0946960135

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• I only recently came upon Chasseguet-Smirgel's 1985 book on the ego ideal while researching a paper on the subject. It is an important contribution to the subject. I found a parallel that is significant to me between her characterization of the ego ideal and Plato's concept of Eros in The Symposium. Both represent human striving for completion that is never met during a lifetime. The value is in the striving, not the quest for completion. This book is worth reading.
• Chasseguet-Smirgel here shows us how we grow up and why we grow into perversion or away from maturity. Inner and outer exigencies are brilliantly evoked and piercingly communicated.